Garment-supporter.



0. c. HANSEN.

sum-m SUPPORTER.

Patented July 25, I899.

(Application filed Mar. 13, 1899) (N0 Iudel.)

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- which areconnected together by a flat shank To all whom it may concern.-

of the device applied to a suspender-end andfastened to a suspender-button. Fig. 2 is an ing a dished button-engaging plate 1 and a 7 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-10E.

' CHRISTOPHER o. HANSEN, or RANDOM LAKE, WISCONSIN.

GARMENTV-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,358, dated July 25, 1899.

Application iilecl March is. 1899.

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER O. HAN- SEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Random Lake, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Garment-Supporter, of which the; following is a specification,

This invention relates to garment-supporters, and is particularly designed for use upon Suspender-ends, although capable of use in other ways asa supporter of variouskinds of garments. r

The especial object of the inventionis to provide a Suspender-end which can be readily applied to a button, having means for locking the device against accidental dis: placementtherefrom, and adapted to be en-. gaged directly with the waistband of the pantaloons should the buttons be missing therefrom. r

To these endsthe present invention con: sists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more-fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed 'ontin the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation edge elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal central sectional view showing the device in use without a suspender-button. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the device.

Corresponding parts are designated by like reference characters in all the figures of the drawings. v 7

'Referring to the accompanying drawings, the device is formed of sheet metal, compristransversely disposed suspending loop 2,

3. The loop, shank, and the button-engaging plate are all disposed in the same plane, so as to rest flat against the garment to which it may be applied;

A projecting longitudinal lip or extension 4 is provided at the lower end of the buttonengaging plate, and to this lip is secured a spring-pin 5, which extends longitudinally upward across theouter concaved face of the plate 1. The free end of the pin is adapted to be engaged with a keeper 6, provided upon seen No. 708,868. (No model.)

the-shank of the device to hold the pin locked in position when the device is in use. A central opening 7 is provided in the plate, and a transverse upwardly-inclined slot 8 coininunicates with the opening and opens out through one side of the plate, forming an entrance into said opening 7. At the upper outer edge of the slot 8 is provided .a stopshoulder 9, which is bent up from the plate into an overhanging hook.

As indicated in Fig.1, the device is connected to a Suspender-end 10 by means of the loop 2. To apply the device, as shown in the said figure of the drawings, the slot ofthe button-engaging plate is-adapted to receive the shank or thread connection of the button -11, and the plate is forced sidewise thereon ;until the vshankis received within the central, opening 7 and the button is seated in the concaved portion of the dished plate.

the device has thus been fitted to the button After beneath the spring-pin the latter is engaged with the keeper 6, and is thereby held diametrically across the outer face of the button. In placing the device upon a button the latter is passed over the stop 9 and beyond the same and when seated in the concavity of the plate 1 is prevented from being accidentally displaced sidewise through the slot 8 by reason of the stop overhanging the edge of the button, and as the pin engages across the top of the button the lattercannot be moved beyond the stop, so that the device is securely fastened upon the button. It will be noted that the slot 8 is inclined upward, so that the lower edge of the same also serves as a stop to prevent lateral displacement of the device from the button. 'To release the device, the pin is disengagedjrom its keeper, and the button is free to be lifted out of the coucaved seat of the plate and beyond the stop 9, when the plate is free to be disengaged laterally from the button. Thus the supporter may be readily placed upon a button and when in place is effectively held against accidental displacement; but it maybe readily removed when desired.

Should there be no button-to which the holder may be applied,the piniinay be engaged with the waistband lilofa pair of pantaloons or other garment, as indicated in Fig. 3', the pin being engaged through the cloth from the inner sideof the band and held in place by the keeper 6. I

a The garment-supporter constructed and arranged as hereinbefore described provides an exceedingly useful and efficient device,as it is formed of practically one piece, having no separate or movable parts to bGCOlHGVVOI'll,

broken, or lost. Being flat it is not awkward or in the way and may be used equally as effectively with orwithouta button, to which it is preferably attached, 7

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and

the minor details of construction within the: scope of the appendedclaims may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacri ficing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is,,

' 1. A garment-supporter comprisinga but ton-en gagin g plate having an opening formed therein, a slot communicating with the opening, and a fixed stop extending laterally from the plate and madeintegral therewith at the outer end'ofthe slotand engaging over the edge of the button to prevent, displacement of the device, substantially as described.

' 2. A garment-supporter colnprisin g a dished I button en gaging plate provided with ace'ntral opening, a slot communicating with the opening at one side of the plate, an integral stop on the plate to engage the edge of the button, and, a pin carried by the plate and extendingdiametrically across the central opening thereof, at such a distance therefrom as to pass over the face, of the button, substantially as described.

3. A garment-supporter, comprising a button-engaging plate having a central opening formed therein and provided with a slot communicating with the opening, means for pre venting displacement of the device through the slot, apin adapted to extend across the opening in'the plate, and a keeper for the pin, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A garment-supporter, comprising a button-engaging plate, having a central opening formed therein, and provided with a trans-v verse slot communicating with the opening, a stopeshoulder providedat the outer open end of the slot, a pin carried by the plate and adapted to extend diametrically across the,

opening in the plate transversely of the slot I 5. A garment-supporter formed from a therein, and a keeper for the pin, substan- 'tially as and for the purpose set forth.

single blank of flat sheet metal, and comprising a dished button-engaging plate, 'a trans verse attaching-loop, and a flat shank connecting the loop and the button-engaging plate the latter having a centralopening formed therein and provided With a transverse slot com mu nicating with-the opening, an over hanging stop-shoulder bentfrom the plate at one end of the slot, a spring-pin provided upon the plate, and a keeper for the pin, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony thatlelaim theforegoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the, presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER C. HANSEN.

' \Vitnesses: i

' MICHAEL HOFFMANN,

E. A. MAGRITZ. 

